A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.